The Battle of Fort Donelson: No Terms but Unconditional Surrender
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The Battle of Fort Donelson: No Terms but Unconditional Surrender

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  2. English
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The Battle of Fort Donelson: No Terms but Unconditional Surrender

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In February 1862, after defeats at Bull Run and at Wilson's Creek in Missouri, the Union army was desperate for victory on the eve of its first offensive of the Civil War. The strategy was to penetrate the Southern heartland with support from a new "Brown Water"? navy. In a two-week campaign plagued by rising floodwaters and brutal winter weather, two armies collided in rural Tennessee to fight over two forts that controlled the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. Those intense days set the course of the war in the Western Theater for eighteen months and determined the fates of Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew H. Foote and Albert Sidney Johnston. Historian James R. Knight paints a picture of this crucial but often neglected and misunderstood turning point.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements and a Note on Sources
  6. Prologue
  7. Chapter 1. The Confederates: April to September 1861
  8. Chapter 2. The Federals: April to September 1861
  9. Chapter 3. Albert Sidney Johnston Takes Command
  10. Chapter 4. Defending the Rivers
  11. Chapter 5. The Brown Water Navy
  12. Chapter 6. Command and Control
  13. Chapter 7. First Blood
  14. Chapter 8. Time Grows Short
  15. Chapter 9. Time Runs Out
  16. Chapter 10. “Make Your Preparations to Take and Hold Fort Henry”
  17. Chapter 11. Fire on the River
  18. Chapter 12. Gunboats in the Heart of Dixie
  19. Chapter 13. The Main Event
  20. Chapter 14. Wednesday, February 12, 1862: The First Day
  21. Chapter 15. Thursday, February 13, 1862: The Second Day
  22. Chapter 16. Friday, February 14, 1862: The Third Day
  23. Chapter 17. Saturday, February 15, 1862: The Fourth Day
  24. Chapter 18. Sunday, February 16, 1862: The Last Day
  25. Epilogue
  26. Appendix A. The Leaders
  27. Appendix B. Order of Battle
  28. Notes
  29. Index
  30. About the Author